· Private foundation
Webster Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $86,000 |
| HEART MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| COMPLETELY KIDS | $15,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $15,000 |
| PROJECT HARMONY | $15,000 |
| YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES | $15,000 |
| HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION | $15,000 |
| OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE | $10,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $10,000 |
| SAMUEL BAK MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| LAURITZEN GARDENS | $10,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY- NE CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS | $10,000 |
| OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $271k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against -65% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $404k · revenue +70%
- OPOMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +80%
- CKCOMPLETELY KIDS8× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- DDOSPACEone grant, 2020 · $5k
- CWCOVERED WATERSone grant, 2023 · $3k
- NCNEW CASSEL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +173%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.
The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
We believe in thoughtful, ecologically-minded practices and the curation of accessible, educational, and inspirational experiences that enhance lives.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Children's Museum and the most unlike its peers is Kim Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds OMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Scottish Rite Foundation of Omaha ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART ↗
- Who funds AVENUE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds FONTENELLE FOREST ↗
- Who funds OMAHA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Barn Theatre ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds Omaha Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Richard Brooke Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Amy L Scott Family Foundation · Burlington Capital Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Webster Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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